Here’s another example of Bush flip-flopping. The administration is now saying it is amenable to a tobacco buyout program that Bush opposed just a month ago.
The administration’s position marks a switch from just a month ago, when President Bush said on the campaign trail in Ohio that he didn’t think the system under which farmers grow and sell tobacco needed to be changed.
“He got a lot of heat,” Kentucky Farm Bureau President Sam Moore said of Bush. “We were very disappointed that he made that statement.”
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., quickly reminded voters that he supported a tobacco farmer buyout when it was briefly considered in 1998.